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Supporters of gay marriage celebrate a Supreme Court victory in West Hollywood on June 26.

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Lesly Vanderwhal waits to evacuate her horse from Shelburne Farms in Hidden Valley, Calif., on May 3, 2013, as the Springs Fire rages.

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UC Irvine students break the Guinness World Record for the largest-ever water blaster fight on September 24. All told, 3,875 students participated. The previous record was 2,671.

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Eric Garcetti walks through the Chinese New Years celebration on February 16th, 2013. Garcetti has played a key role in revitalizing his district in Hollywood.

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Hundreds of people entered the football stadium at Santa Monica College for a vigil in honor of the victims of a mass shooting on June 10.

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Riverside Police Officers watch a flyover at a memorial for a slain police officer Michael Crain at Riverside National Cemetery on February 13.

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Melanie Yantha describes the scene at LAX after the shooting on November 1st, 2013.

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A law enforcement official exits the command center for the search for Christopher Dorner near the Bear Mountain Ski Resort on February 8.

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An inmate does pull-ups in the exercise yard outside the Security Housing Units at Corcoran State Prison on September 30. There 1,258 men in the maximum security isolation units at the prison.

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Prison guards escort an inmate to her OB/GYN appointment on April 21. The inmate was being held in the Administrative Segregation Unit at the California Institution for Women in Chino.

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Erik Sun and Erez look at a wild pig sow that they killed while hunting board on a farm near Bakersfield on September 20th.

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Social Worker Alfred McCloud looks into the windows of a second-floor apartment in Long Beach. McCloud works for the county's Department of Child and Family Services visiting homes where child abuse is reported at night.

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Azusa residents Mariana and Cesar Moreno look on as a chopper drops water on the Madre Fire in the hills above Azusa on September 23.

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Damien, a teen who recently served a six-month sentence in juvenile detention camp, rides a skateboard in front of a friend's house in Pomona.

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A train of 100 mules takes off from the intake point of the of the Los Angeles aqueduct on October 17 to travel the entire length of the waterway in celebration of the its 100th anniversary.

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About 30 miles south of Bishop, Calif., the Owens River is diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct intake (left), while some of the water continues to flow in the Owens Valley (right).

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The inbound operation area is where millions of different items arrive and are sorted to be stored at an Amazon fulfillment center in Riverside County. Photographed on October 29.

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May Day parade goers wave American flags as they make their way down Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles on May 1.

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Jessica Maxwell and Shana Krochmal stand in line to get their marriage license at the Beverly Hills Court House on June 30. The couple has been together for past five years.

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Kids play with an R2-M5 at WonderCon 2013 at Los Angeles Convention Center on March 30.

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Ryan Hakik, a developer at Electronic Entertainment, spent an hour creating his mohawk with custom stencils for Titanfall, which will launch in the spring of 2014.

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Eight-year-old Sophia of Thousand Oaks points out a starfish at Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu while spending the day with her family on July 24.

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Dr. Joe Farlo spearfishes near Redondo Beach on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The sport of spearfishing started in San Diego during World War II.

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A child runs through Exxopolis, an inflatable art structure on display in Grand Park, on September 14th.

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Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National. The singer's brother, Tom Berninger, directed a new documentary about the band, called "Mistaken For Strangers."

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Justice Bussel wears an Ironman suit that he got while visiting his family and two siblings in Santa Cruz, Calif. For more than three years, Justice has lived with his mother in the Community Prisoner Mother Program.

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Col. Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut and Youtube star.

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A dog walks on top of a pink limo near a Trayvon Martin rally in Leimert Park on July 15.

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James Goldstein in his John Lautner-designed home. Goldstein attends 95 percent of Lakers and Clippers games in Los Angeles.

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The intersection of the 105 and the 710.

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Los Angeles police officer Greg MacDonald surveys the streets of West Hollywood during a call about a disturbance at a hospital below.

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Adult film actress Celeste Star holds a prop gun to adult film star James Deen's head on the set of the film Saving Humanity at a studio in Chatsworth, Calif., on March 12.

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Social worker Gesenia Macias leaves an apartment with two police officers after unsuccessfully trying to find the parents in a reported neglect case on August 14.

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David Nickoloff leads a donkey to remote cabins that can only be supplied by pack trains inside the Angeles National Forest on September 5.

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Carlos Lopez takes pond weeds out of the Echo Park Lake on June 28. The grass is growing exceptionally fast due to the warm weather.

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Farmers work in a field in Hemet, Calif., while the Mountain Fire burns on July 19.

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Juan, a migrant worker, poses for a portrait while workin in the fields May 10 on a farm operated by Better Produce north of Santa Maria, Calif. The farm sells strawberries to Wal-Mart, Inc.

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Protesters take up the front line of the May Day parade as it reaches 5th Street in Downtown Los Angeles on May 1.

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Members of an inmate fire crew make their way toward a fire burning near a neighborhood west of Thousand Oaks on May 2.

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Inmates look out on the exercise yard for the general population at Corcoran State Prison on September 30. Only 558 of the prison's 4,386 inmates are in the general population with its more lenient restrictions.

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Detective Jones looks for clues during a probation check in the bedroom of a home in Corona, Calif., on June 20. The mirror in the bedroom has Los Angeles gang tags.

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Police officers arrested 13 protestors in Leimert Park after a rally for Trayvon Martin escalated on July 15.

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A woman lays flowers at a makeshift memorial for Marcela and Carlos Franco on June 9 at the spot where they were killed on the Santa Monica College campus.

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A Santa Monica College alumnus listens during a reading at vigil at Corsair Field in Santa Monica on June 10.

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The Midnight Runners help homeless people train for marathons. Here, they cross the Sixth Street Bridge in Downtown Los Angeles in the early morning hours of September 15.

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Maggie Simpson and her two youngest girls get ready to go pick up their sister from school on August 21. The younger girls were at home because of cuts to Head Start programs.

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Marcie, 85, and Tom H., 84, listen to music from an iPod on Thursday, Jan. 24 at Atherton Baptist Homes in Alhambra. Marcie is one of several residents with dementia who is part of Atherton's Music & Memory program.

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Michael Clark, an animal keeper at the Los Angeles Zoo, holds a California Condor as it is treated for lead poisoning on November 5. In the last month, 21 birds have been treated at the zoo.

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Dean Smith from the knights of Columbus Color Core walks towards the altar at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on March 13 after Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was named Pope Francis I.

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Sign painter Estevan Sanchez uses oils to hand paint an advertisement on the Figueroa Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on September 27.

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Allis Markham puts the finishing touches on a female Cooper's hawk at the Natural History Museum on April 24.

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John Burroughs High School's vocal ensemble members Jennifer Katz, left, Nia Johnson, Alana Aimaq and Katie Butterworth get into a car on their way to a performance on December 19.

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Reverend Elizabeth Oakes prepares to marry a same-sex couple at the Norwalk clerk's office on July 1.

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Lilyanne McCoy and Sandra Schicora of Lakewood make vows during a marriage ceremony at the L.A. County Clerk's office in Norwalk on July 1.

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Mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez tries to catch a breath mint tossed in the air by his wife Rebecca before a candidate forum at the Autry National Center on February 4.

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City Controller Wendy Greuel speaks to her supporters after moving forward to a runoff against Councilman Eric Garcetti in the race for Los Angeles mayor on March 6.

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Mayoral Candidate Jan Perry and campaign aide Helen Sanchez ride the elevator down from the top floor of the Wells Fargo building in Downtown Los Angeles where the candidate spoke at meeting of the African American Chamber of Commerce on January 17.

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Marcus Petitt, a USC senior and music industry major, leads fellow students in singing the gospel song "I Don't Feel No Ways Tired" before a meeting with the LAPD and university officials on May 7.

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The Los Angeles Police Department conducts a counter-terrorism demonstration in Downtown on June 6.

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A Sheriff's deputy walks down 17th Street on June 7 hours after a series of shootings throughout the city ended at Santa Monica College.

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A helicopter drops water over flames in Angeles National Forest on May 31.

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Doelorez Mejia of the Eastside Coalition against Exide yells during a town hall meeting at the Resurrection School on Tuesday, Oct. 8 about Exide Technologies, a lead-recycling plant in Vernon.

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Jack Kirkland of Big Bear smokes a cigarette between runs at Bear Mountain Lodge on February 8.

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Todd Hoggan's son Quentin runs to hide from his dad as they play at an coffee house in Idylwlild, Calif., on October 6.

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F95, a two-year-old mountain lion, is briefly sedated as researchers with UC Davis' Wildlife Health Center and other local organizations check the wildcat's health and re-apply her GPS collar, at 2 a.m. on March 14 in the Santa Rosa Plateau area. Vickers is applying eye drops to F95's eyes so they stay moist while she's sedated.

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Almost 50 years after its construction in 1967, The Forum in Inglewood is being renovated by the Madison Square Garden Company.

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On February 21, mounted law enforcement officers salute the funeral motorcade of Det. Jeremiah MacKay, who was killed during the final chase for the fugitive Christopher Dorner.

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A Lake Hughes home on Newview Road is one of several homes destroyed by the Powerhouse Fire, which burned thousands of acres. The U.S. Forest Service said 53 structures including 24 residences were destroyed by the Powerhouse wildfire near Palmdale in northern Los Angeles County.

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Israel Del Toro, an Air Force Sergeant, and Michael Schwimmer, a TV executive from Sherman Oaks, share a meal in Westwood on January 25. Del Toro is receiving free reconstructive surgery from UCLA; Schwimmer's family keep him company through his recovery.

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Law enforcement officials conduct a door-to-door search in Big Bear for Christopher Dorner on February 7 after his truck was found burned in the area.

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The building on the right near Bear Mountain Ski Resort served as central command during the search for the fugitive Christopher Dorner. The building on the left is where Dorner reportedly hid from police for days on end.

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A fire pit burns near the Huntington Beach pier on June 7. The fire pits in Orange County were the target of heated discussion this year as some residents sought to shut them down.

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Adult film actress Kayla Carrera checks her hair between takes on the set of a music video shoot at the Los Angeles Brewery on January 11.

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Supervisors pump up scare actors at Knott's Berry Farm by asking them to scream during a training session on September 17. About 1,000 actors take part in the park's month-long Haunt each year.

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Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban, became the first gay couple to wed in Los Angeles since 2008 on June 29 at City Hall. Outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officiated the ceremony.

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Ruth Windfeltdt has come to Santa Anita Race Track for 50 years. This how she looked on Opening Day 2013.

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Kieran McKay, a JPL flight technician, walks toward the door of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility during a tour for NASA adminstrator Charles Bolden on August 12.

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Patricia Moreno is one of two remaining brass repair technicians on staff for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has worked in the repair shop for nine years.

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Luis Magdaleno, an electrician for Morrow Meadows, drills holes for wiring in handicap stalls, so that attendees can plug in their electronics. Renovations are taking place at Dodger Stadium before opening day on April 1. Magdaleno has been working on the park for four weeks.